A mothers' proverb, referring to boys' chores, says that "Two boys are
only half a boy." This saying applies also to most literary
collaborations, even to those of such individually able collaborators
as were Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. To Tahiti-Expatriates
Nordhoff & Hall, who in 18 years have collaborated on eight books, it
applied least in their H. M. S. Bounty trilogy, where they followed a
true story, applies most in The Dark River, where they follow their
imaginations,...